Tells you everything you need to know about those people nostalgic for the white ruling class that they never mention the current crisis we're in, the current crises we're suffering, the sham democracy and our eroding state of being are all a result of the white ruling class.

They like to weave this story as if everything was great because they themselves were so well-served by the old order, but what we're seeing with declining health care and wealth and the opioid crisis and institutionalized racism is all the end-product of that stewardship.

Not to mention the rise of the corporate state where our entire country is tied to a volatile market that serves no one but the wealthy and ensures all laws and government are dedicated to serving their whims and interest. Again, this is the result of the white ruling class.

It's just unreal how often these pundits and politicians and supposedly deep thinkers continue to confuse their own wellbeing and preferred reality with the actual history and development of what has transpired in this country.

What they're nostalgic for is a kinder faced white supremacy that knows how to hide itself in public behind niceties and manners. A white supremacy that kowtows to the interests of the affluent but still disavows the neo-Nazis they secretly depend on. They want the old product.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is succeeding because she's realized people are tired of fighting over inches of territory and that the only way to create giant change is to acknowledge that giant change is possible.

For way, way, way too long Democrats have fought their battles on the terms of Republicans and ceded reality to their definitions. They need to change those definitions and change that reality.

In the era of Trump we see how he defines the debate. Is there a crisis on the border? Yes or no? That's defining of reality. Democrats need to work beyond his definitions and Republican definitions and provide an alternative versus an opposition.

The sum is greater than the parts. We’re in a defining, real crisis. It’s not the day do day lies or the controversy of the moment. This is a precipice and it’s time to talk about the possible consequences.

To survive this crisis we need to change everything about the way we view reporting, media, history, and our very concept of society. It’s all broken and we have to change and in a hurry.

This crisis with Trump is the end result of a decay and a problem. We can’t fix this without going deeper and thinking deeper. Otherwise we’re just deepening the hole.

We suffer from a severe lack of societal imagination as to how things could be better. It means the past and future were inevitable and the track we’re on, no matter how dangerous and unfair, is fixed and inescapable.

There’s an entire industry dedicated to limiting that imagination and it operates everywhere. Politics. Industry. Every facet of society. And that business of derailing change is the largest and most profitable of them all.

At its heart is a really disingenuous alchemy that transforms arbitrary and created structures and narratives into laws of nature. Those that perform that trick are capable of wielding it to their advantage while also working outside of its lines.

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1. One of the arguments made by remainers during the referendum was that #Brexit would make us "inward looking". The solipsism of the Brexit parliamentary debate, though, suggests that we have never been more politically self-absorbed.

2. If we bother with european politics at all it is only in terms of near-Europe, hyperventilating about French protests or speculating on Merkel. Only when there's a juicy drama do we pay any attention. Adult concerns seldom ever feature.

3. I have of late taken an interest in Eastern European politics. I am by no means an expert - and I'm aware of the many pitfalls, but I sense a growing tension in Ukraine with serious ramifications for Poland and Germany who disagree on a number of issues.

1. The UK still does not have anything approaching a workable Brexit plan. The government doesn't really know what it wants and no preparations have been made for any outcome. Even if May accepts the NI backstop it will need infrastructure at Holyhead.

2. That we are this late in the game and still have nothing even close to a legal draft of an NI settlement gives you some idea as to how dysfunctional UK governance has become. They couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

3. Notionally when you have a clan of incompetent making a mess of things we chuck them out and put new politicians in. Except that the opposition couldn't run a bath. There is no possibility of them getting to grips with Brexit. It is beyond their capability.

The plan was to get all these unaccompanied minors across the border, resettle them in the US a 'refugees', and then start working to bring all their other family members over here too. So this wasn't just about 150,000 kids over 3-4 years coming in here unaccompanied.

I'm not sure what the complete totals were from 2009 to 2016, Obama's last year in office, but by 2014 it was well over 50,000/unaccompanied minors a year getting caught at our South border.

You really need to understand how bad this situation is. With his racist, xenophobic rhetoric, Trump has created the conditions under which 1,500 children are now missing from Federal government "care."

Donald Trump has been linked to human traffickers in the past. He has no compunction about commercializing women's bodies OR about grabbing women's without our consent.

What makes us think he'd feel any differently about commercializing women's bodies without their consent?

Donald Trump has been accused of raping a young teenage girl. He absolutely associates with known traffickers in teen girls. This tells you everything you need to know about how he'd feel about commercializing the bodies of children.

Okay, so... I'm going to make myself a drink and then we're doing this. Deep dive into Trump's campaign rally speech from Pennsylvania on March 10th.

All my babies already know the drill. For the newer followers - what I do is not fact checking, it's interpretation. Context and content analysis. Political and psychological insights.

This kind of thing has been my calling since Trump's election and I do do it for a living, more or less. If you get anything out of it, if you want to support this kind of work, if you've just got too much money, you can tip in. paypal.me/alexandraerin

This is an extraordinarily important and riveting story everyone should read repeatedly. I'm interested myself to find out why memory of Communist terror doesn't work this way. 1st, important to examine favorite meme of Americans about themselves this doctor helps debunk:

The meme of the American GI bursting into the Nazi death camps of the Holocaust and "saving" people even as they took horrible pictures of them and "revealing to the world this evil" is a very big staple of Holocaust memory, but it is only partially true as we find from a US doc

He *couldn't* save people and wept for 40 years, broken at the memory of a little girl who died and hundreds more, with his family hating him as his soul was poisoned & only his little grandson to hear the story. Horrible!